The best Mondo Generator Post, ever

Something of a stoner rock super project, many of the "legends" of the genre have appeared under the monkier of Mondo Generator. I'll try to summarize their history as best I can with some help from Wikipedia. Formed in 1997 as song of a Queens of the Stone Age/Kyuss side-project by Nick Oleveri, Brandt Bjork, Josh Homme, Rob Oswald and Karl Doyle, they threw together an album entitled "Cocaine Rodeo".....if you didn't know any better you'd simply swear it was a great lost QOTSA album, down to the titles ("Another Tension Head", "Miss Mary Gets a Boob Job", "Dead Insects".......you get the idea. The band/project emerged a few years laer with "A Drug Problem That Never Existed" (detect any themes running through this?).....this time getting help from stoner notables such as Mark Lanegan and Molly McGuire as well as the previous participants, might as well toss up some of the goofier titles for ya just fer a laugh: "Meth I Hear You Callin'", "Girls Like Christ".......I happen to love stuff like this, but you know, sometimes the "drug-fueled "zaniness" " tends to feel a tiny bit forced. Whatever.

So, evidently, Oliveri was fired from QOTSA by Homme and took on the Mondo Generator moniker for his own.....resulting in a more "permanent" band type thing rather than simply a Kyuss/QOTSA offshoot project, and in 2007 the album "Dead Planet" resulted....I have kind of mixed opinions on it, while it actually doesn't really "get it done" for me as much as the previous two albums, it does have more of it's own "identity" and really isn't bad. Not a "future forgotten classic", but not bad. I also have the Australian version, entitled "Dead Planet: Sonicslowmotiontrails", which has NO additional material and merely revises the track sequence, why I have both I'll never know, but I am not going to put the Aussie version up, same music, actually......

Since then they have put up some sporadic efforts, 2010's EP "Dog Food", and a VERY recent effort (just last year!) "Hell Comes To Your Heart" which I am fairly certain that although I have it back there, I don't think I have ever listened to it, so I will withhold the critique......let me throw in Oliveri's 2009 solo effort "Death Acoustic" (really surprisingly good) and you about have it.

I try to hit on a lot of different segments of the music I listen to with these posts. Sometimes I am putting up someone like Ian Hunter (yesterday), for my money one of the most important and significant figures in rock n roll history, or, like today,someone like Mondo Generator, who in ten years will be 99% forgotten........but there is some good stuff on these albums, obviously if you are a fan of Kyuss or Queens of the Stone Age you'll want to check these out to "complete the picture" if you haven't previously.

Enjoy the rest of your Saturday my loves, and I'm really not doing shit today, so back to the shelves I go to find something (hopefully) cool to talk about/write about/present to you tomorrow. Until then, love yourselves and love each other!

COCAINE RODEO-01 13th Floor/02 Shawnette/03 Uncle Tommy/04 Miss Mary Gets a Boob Job/05 Unless I Can Kill/06 Pigman/07 Simple Exploding Man (Extended Version)/08 I Want You To Die/09 Dead Insects/10 Cocaine Rodeo/11 Another Tension Head

A DRUG PROBLEM THAT NEVER EXISTED-01 Meth I Hear You Callin'/02 Here We Come/03 So High, So Low/04 Do the Headright/05 Open Up and Bleed For Me/06 All I Can Do/07 Fuck You I'm Free/08 Detroit//09 Me And You/10 Like You Want/11 Girls Like Christ/12 Day I Die/13 Jr High Love/14 Four Corners

DEAD PLANET-01 Basket Case/02 I Never Sleep/03 All the Way Down/04 She Only Owns You/05 Lie Detector/06 Mental Hell/07 All Systems Go/08 Like a Bomb/09 So High/10 Sonicslowmotiontrails/11 Take Me Away/12 Life of Sin/13 Paper Thin/14 Sam Hell/15 There She Goes Again/16 Bloody Hammer/17 Sleep the Lie Away

DOG FOOD (EP)-01 Dog Food/02 Smashed Apart/03 This Isn't Love/04 Green Machine/05 Endless Vacation (Live)/06 Bloody Hammer (Live)/07 Dungaree High (Live)/08 Pushed Aside (live)

HELL COMES TO YOUR HEART-01 Dead Silence/02 The Way I Let You Down/03 Burn the Bridge/04 Won't Let Go/05 Like the Sky/06 This Isn't Love/07 The Dirt Beneath/08 Hang 'em High/09 Central Nervous System High School/10 Smashed Apart/11 Night Calls/12 The Last Train

(NICK OLEVERI) DEATH ACOUSTIC-01 Start a Fight/02 Invisible Like the SKy/03 Dairy Queen/04 I'm Gonna Leave You/05 Love Has Passed Me By/06 U BLow/07 Hybrid Momets/08 Unless I Can Kill/09 Follow Me/10 Oulaw Scumfuc/11 Jealous Again/12 Chainsan Shackles (with Slash)


I be working on the link, just as hard as I can.....I'll hopefully get the up tonight.....still thinking about that Pink concert the other night, a phrase I'll use for not the first (and far from the last) time......"As long as I have a face, Pink will never, ever, under any circumstances, lack for a place to sit!"

The best Ian Hunter post ever

For the most part, Ian Hunter WAS Mott the Hoople, as much as I hate to admit that.....his overwhelming personality trumped all, Mott albums such as "All the Young Dudes" and "Mott" would have been TOTALLY forgotten relics had it not been for Hunter's genius......his solo career also had sparks of brilliance, (Mott the Hoople's post-Ian Hunter efforts, "Drive On" and "Pointing and Shouting", are two of perhaps the worst recorded albums in the history of music)

Hunter's first post-Mott solo LP is damn near a classic, a simply classic rock n roll album, with the fantastic "Once Bitten Twice Shy" which was later covered by some ridiculous hair metal band in a suck-shit version, the great "Who Do You Love", and the mind-dissolving slide guitar classic "The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nothing But the Truth" which is, I don't know, one of maybe the underappreciated tracks in rock history? Brilliant "solo" debut, but there was yet more to come....."All American Alien Boy" is a fine effort as well, there are some great tunes here ("Rape", "You Nearly Did Me In", "Apathy 83"(sample lyric: "There ain't no rock n roll no more, just music of the rich"), and especially, "God (Take 1)" (lyrically a very odd conversation between Ian and the Lord, lyrically there are some VERY clever moments, opening line: "Oh, God said to me, gonna kick your ass")....Hunter had some great songs still in his cranium, this is nearly as fine an album as his solo debut.

Next came "You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic", which is a fine album as well, an unusual circumstance for a rocker "striking out on his own" after leaving "his" band......but this album is an amazing triumph as well, "Just Another Night" and "Cleveland Rocks" are great, "Standin In My Light" ("they take my pictures off the walls, I still won't trade with the pay of the New York Dolls") and "Wild East" are good, and "Ships" (in the GUESS WHAT?) was covered by (wait for it) Barry Manilow for which Hunter more money than he made in his entire career with Mott as well as his solo career........life can be so ironic at times......ANYWAY.....

Hunter has released several albums since "Schizophrenic", none of them have really impressed me a lot, I am including "Overnight Angels" simply because I happen to have a copy (it ain't much), but he did release a pretty good live LP."Welcome to the Club", which is a fair-to-good three sided live effort, including some  great Mott material ("All the Young Dudes", "All the Way from Memphis" for example), as well as some of Ian's solo work.....it is a fine album, actually, and the fourth side includes some new Hunter studio material including two fine new rockers("We Gotta Get Out of Here","Man O War")

Gotta coupla boots here, don't get too excited, the sound quality is something "less than stellar"...."Drunk on Wine and Wisdom" is not dated and is credited to the "Hunter/Ronson Band", while not great it does include some rare tracks such as "England Rocks" and "Traitor".

We have a 1975 Hunter boot from Detroit, which is frankly fairly awful, if you are a Mott/Hunter fanatic have at it.....and a 1989 Hunter/Ronson Band BBC Boot from 1989, which is not bad and contains some material not available on the previous releases.

Hunter has released other albums since "You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic"....other than the lame "Overnight Angels" I don't think I've ever heard any of them,(I think I may have heard "Short Back and Sides" and, if I recall, pretty much considered it the "write him off" moment of a fine and brilliant career) nor do I want to, especially......memo to Ian Hunter: "It's a mighty long way down rock n roll, and as your name gets hot then your heart grows cold".........hey, Ian.....THEN your name gets cold. In the 1970's/early 80's he was as bad-ass as they come though, BOTH fronting one of the best bands of an era AS WELL AS turning in a VERY VERY good few solo albums before the final turn towards suckville. Without question one of the finest and most important artists of that most crucial (and best) of rock n roll decades, those fantastic 1970's.........

IAN HUNTER-01 Once Bitten Twice Shy/02 Who Do you Love/03 Lounge Lizard/04 Boy/05 3000 Miles From Here/06 The Truth, the Whole Truth, Nothing But the Truth/07 It Ain't Easy When You Fall/08 Shades Off/09 I Get So Excited

ALL AMERICAN ALIEN BOY-01 Letter to Britannia From the Union Jack/02 All American Alien Boy/03 Irene Wilde/04 Rape/05 You Nearly Did Me In/06 Apathy 83/18 God (take 1)/19 Restless Youth

YOU'RE NEVER ALONE WITH A SCHIZOPHRENIC-01 Just Another Night/02 Wild East/03 Cleveland Rocks/04 Ships/05 When the Daylight Comes/06 Life After Death/07 Standin' In My Light/08 Bastard/09 The Outsider

WELCOME TO THE CLUB-01 FBI/02 Once Bitten Twice SHy/03 Angeline/04 Laugh At Me/05 All The Way From Memphis/06 I Wish I Was Your Mother/07 Irene Wilde/08 Just Another Night/09 Cleveland Rocks/10 Standin' In My Light/11 Bastard/12 Walkin With a Mountain/Rock N Roll Queen/13 All The Young Dudes/14 Slaughter on Tenth Avenue/15 We Gotta Get Out Of Here/16 Silver Needles/17 Man O War/18 Sons and Daughters

OVERNIGHT ANGELS-01 Golden Opportunities/02 Shallow Crystals/03 Overnight Angels/04 Broadway/05 Justice of the Peace/06 (Miss) Silver Dime/07 Wild N Free/08 The Ballad of Little Star/09 To Love a Woman

DRUNK ON WINE AND WISDOM-01 Intro/02 FBI/03 Once Bitten Twice Shy//04 Life After Death/05 Laugh at Me/06 Letter to Britannia From the Union Jack/07 Just Another Night/08 Angeline/09 Standin' In My Light/10 Bastard/11 Cleveland Rocks/12 England Rocks (rare A-Side)/13 I'm the Teacher (soundtrack)/14 All American Alien Boy (Single Version)/15 Traitor (B Side)/16 Great Expectations (soundtrack)

DETROIT 1975-01 The Truth The Whole Truth Nothin' But the Truth/02 Lounge Lizard/03 Unknown/04 Who Do You Love/05 White Light/White Heat/06 Boy/07 Unknown/08 Once Bitten Twice Shy/09 Roll Away the Stone/10 Unknown/11 All the Way From Memphis/12 All the Young Dudes/13 Encore

HUNTER/RONSON BBC 2/15/89-01 Once Bitten Twice Shy/02 How Much More Can I Take/03 Big N Little Love/04 Following In Your Footsteps/05 Just Another Night/06 Sweet Dreamer/07 (Give Me Back My) Wings/08 Standin' In My Light/09 Bastard/10 The Loner/11 You're Never Too Small to Hit the Big Time/12 All the Way From Memphis/13 Irene Wilde

Links will be up when they are up, zippy has gone back to its previous, inconsistent self...... oh well, it was a great week!

Be whisking away to the magical land of Strat-O-Matic baseball here in an hour or so, perfect plan would be I cet the remaining two discs to upload (ITunes seems to be having reading a couple of these CD's, they are REALLY old), but should I succeed, I will get them all started in Zippy, who will do me right and have everything uploaded after I go kick some Strat O Matic ass, I'll return and post the links before midnight.........hopefully that's how it goes.

Dunno WHAT I'll put up tomorrow, but you know it will be something GREAT.......by the way the ultimate in congratulations to my son Grant Miller for being named Most Valuable Player of his High School JV Team as a freshman (he also got PLENTY of varsity playing time).....making it MORE impressive is the fact that he missed seven games with a bad leg injury, but in my highly prejudiced opinion, it was still a sound and logical selection. I hope to see him win three more of them, then maybe one or 2 in college? World's proudest Daddy, give me a LITTLE latitude for a minute!

The best Fiery Furnaces post, ever

Welcome me back, I've been away from the blog for a day, believe it or not to escort my wife to a Pink concert, and, beleive it or not again, enjoying it quite a bit. Pink is a fine entertainer and REALLY puts out live, a very awesome visual experience....as for the music, well, I've heard LOTS worse, including in particular the Hives who opened and whom I have always thought sucked and who did little to change my opinion Wedensday night.....don't worry I am NOT going to do a post "about" Pink", that would be limited to my wet dreams regarding her, but lets touch on someone I've wanted to do for a while, the Fiery Furnaces, one of my favorite, and most original, acts of the past decade or so......THIS IS NOT going to be for everyone, but I really DO love these guys and wanted to give them some props.

The Fiery Furnaces formed  Brooklyn NY, they are composed of brother/sister tandem of vocalist Elanor Friedberger and guitarist Matthew Friedberger, a brother/sister combo (ONCE AGAIN allow me to point out how many great bands of the recent era were male/female duos: Mommy and Daddy, The Raveonettes, The Kills, The White Stripes, The Fiery Furnaces, SAMAX (haven't heard from you guys in a while!).....anyway, the Friedbergers are awesome, and produce some WAAAAAY out there sounds, and then turn around and reinvent the whole thing in their brain-mashing live shows.

They released their first album "Gallowsbird's Bark" in 2002, it's loaded with some of their better songs, such as "Tropical Iceland", "Athsma Attack", "Don't Dance Her Down", and "Leaky Tunnel", all very cool tracks that would later be absolutley blown apart by killer live versions of the same. This is very unique stuff, can't think of a sngle thing to compare it to, I love Elanor's incredible vocals and Matthew's guitar wizardry.

Album #2 "Blueberry Boat", in  my view, is quite good as well, it did not receive a lot of critical acclaim, the lead off track "Quay-Cur" is ALL over the place in ten minutes, when we talk about "alternative" music we throw that term around REALLY loosely, but where the hell else can you slot an act like this? The album also contains "Chris Michaels" and "My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found".......fine stuff, again, which would later be bowlderized into steaming in-concert versions.

Next they released "EP", this is an actual TITLE not a designation.....it rounds up some thier singles and B-sides and a couple of new tracks, the highlight being a fine reworking of the folk standard "Single Again", which was released as a single to attempt to gain the band some sort of mainstream exposure.

2005 brought "Rehearsing My Choir".....I am NOT crazy about this album, it is a very ambitious effort in which the Friedberger's GRANDMOTHER narrates stories about her life, for me it really doesn't work, I know some who do praise it, judge for yourself.

Album #5 was entitled "Bitter Tea" and seemed to be searching a bit for mainstream acceptance, don't think it really worked out that way for them, but, again, some good songs here, ("Benton Harbor Blues", "I'm in No Mood"), if you like the Furnaces, there is a good chance this is your favorite album by them.....I really like the bizarre leadoff track "In My Little Thatched Hut"......

Next, in 2007, they released yet another fine album, one of the better efforts of that year "Widow City", which contains the wonderful "The Philadelphia Grand Jury", the very cool "Clear Signal From Cairo",  and lots of other cool stuff, VERY few bands mature/age as well as these kids have. They released, that same year, a live compilation, "Remember" that I have been looking for ever since 2007 and have NEVER ONCE seen or heard of a copy, I wonder seriously whether it truly exists.

In 2009 they released their SEVENTH studio album, "I'm Going Away", for my money it is a success as well, but as you can probably tell I REALLY like these guys, it's another fine collection of Elanor's awesome vocals and the instrumental dexterity of Matthew. Truly, these guys were one of the most unappreciated bands of the so-called "alternative" era, when bands like Pearl Jam, who, in all honesty, sounded like 1000 OTHER hard rock bands wore the label of "alternative", THIS band was REALLY alternative, impossible of being compared to ANYONE else.

In thier typical way of doing things, they released an album entitled "Take Me Round Again", which featured DIFFERENT VERSIONS of the songs on "I'm Going Away".....It is a Fiery Furnaces trademard to take their songs and constantly reinvent them (live, at least), this is a studio version of the same, and, again, I have NEVER seen of heard of a single copy of it.....woule LOVE to have one, attention all minions!

OK, that WOULD be, perhaps the end of  the story, and it would not be ALL THAT exciting of a story, except for this: Thier live shows are off the charts awesome. They are one band that is many, many times greater on stage than in the studio. As I alluded to above they have released one "official" live album (that I have never even seen a copy of), but I do have several boots here that paint the proper picture of them live. if you are dabbling, this is one of the VERY few bands that I would advise you to begin dabbling with the live boots, they are tremendous.

Let us begin with one of the greatest "unoffical" live boots I have ever heard from ANYONE, "Washington DC 6/30/06"....this is an incredible set, not a single dull moment on it, as they take their catalouge and completely STAND IT ON IT'S HEAD,. Elanor is generally the focal poinnt on record, but on stage, Matthew can be just incredible.....If you are dabbling, PLEASE try this one, and THEN GO BACK and listen to the studio versions of these tracks, you will be amazed. Geez, I don't even know where to start....a great opening version of "Chris Michaels"....a fine "Athsma Attack"....great versions of "Don't Dance Her Down" and "Single Again", but the TRUE highlight is the absolute smoked up version of "Leaky Tunnel/Tropical Iceland" which redefines these tunes (espeically the latter)......if you have never heard this album (most haven't) you are doing yourself an injustice.

What else we got? "Live On KCRW 2007" contains some later material, a lot from "Widow City", and is a good look at their live shows as well (not as good as the DC set), and a couple of MORE sets from right around the same time, both late 2007, one from Portland Oregon and one from Ausitn Texas......I recommend them both ONCE YOU GET INTO this band, these recordings are gems that I love and want to share with EVERYONE.

I have here also a super-rartity, the Furnaces appearing on "Lounge Acts" on WOXY, unsure of the date, but if you happen to  a fan of these folks, (as I obviously am, after all this), you'll want to add this radio performance as well.

The Fiery Furnaces were not/are not for everyone......they incorporate a LOT of elements into their music that for some are hard to deal with........BUT I think they are great, YOU may hate them and that is fine too......but that Washington DC set for my money is a five star bootleg, and fairly hard to track down, so if some of you at least appreciate THAT one it will be worth it........


See ya tomorrow with God only knows what?

GALLOWSBIRD'S BARK-01 South is Only a Home/02 Im Gonna Run/03 Leaky Tunnel/04 Up In the North/05 Inca Rag/Name Game/06 Asthma Attack/07 Don't Dance Her Down/08 Crystal Clear/09 Two Fat Feet/10 Bow Wow/11 Gale Blow/12 Worry Worry/13 Bright Blue Tie/14 Tropical Icelande/15 Rub-Alcohol Blues/16 We Got Back the Plague

BLUEBERRY BOAT-01Quay Cur/02 Straight Street/03 Blueberry Boat/04 Chris Michaels/05 Paw Paw Tree/06 My Dog Was Lost But Know He's Found/07 Mason City/08 Chief Inspector Blanchfelmer/09 Spanisbited/10 1917/11 Birdie Brain/12 Turning Round/13 Wolf Note

EP-01 Single Again/02 Here Comes the Summer/03 Evergreen/04 Sing For Me/05 Tropical Iceland/06Duffer St. George/07 Smelling Cigarettes/08 Cousin Chris/09 Sweet Spots/10 Sullivan's Social Club

REHEARSING MY CHOIR-01 The Garfield El/02 The Wayward Grandaughter/03 A Candymaker's Knife in My Handbag/04 We Wrote Letters Every Day/05 Forty Eight Twenty Three Twenty Second Street/06 Guns Under the Counter/07 Seven Silver Curses/08 Though Let's Be Fair/09 Slavin Away/10 Rehearsing My Choir/11 Does It Remind You Of When

BITTER TEA-01 In My Little Thatched Hut/02 I'm In No Mood/03 Black Hearted Boy/04 Bitter Tea/05 Teach me Sweetheart/06 Waiting To Know You/07 The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry/08 Oh Sweet Words/09 Bornero/10 Police Sweater Blood Vow/11 Nevers!/12 Benton Harbor Blues/13 Whistle Rhapsody

WIDOW CITY-01 The Philadelphia Grand Jury/02 Duplexes of the Dead/03 Automatic Husband/04 Ex-Guru/05 Clear Signal From Cairo/06 My Egyptian Grammer/07 The Old Hag Is Sleeping/08 Japanese Slippers/09 Navy Nurse/10 Uncle Charlie/11 Right By Consent/12 Restorative Beer/13 Wicker Whatnots/14 Cabaret of the Seven Devils/15 Pricked In the Heart/16 Widow City

I'M GOING AWAY-01 I'm Going Away/02 Drive to Dallas/03 The End Is Near/04 Charmaine Champagne/05 Cut the Cake/06 Even in the Rain/07 Staring at the Steeple/08 Ray Bouvier/09 Keep Me In the Dark/10 Lost at Sea/11 Cups & Punches/12 Take Me Round Again

WASHINGTON DC 6/30/06-01 Chris Michaels/02 Crystal Clear/03 Straight Street/04 Police Sweater Blood Vow/My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found/05 Athsma Attack/06 Benton Harbor Blues/07 Quay Kur/08 The Garfield El/The Candlemaker's Knife In My handbag/09 Evergreen/10 Teach me Sweetheart/11 Waiting To Know You/12 I'm in No Mood/13 Leaky Tunnel/Tropical Iceland/14 Single Again/15 Don't Dance Her Down/16 Blueberry Boat/17 Up In the North/18 Chief Inspector Blancheflower/19 Slaving Away/20 Bitter Tea/21 Rub-Alcohol Blues

KCRW 10/23/07-01 Intro/02 Duplexes of the Dead/03 Automatic Husband/04 Ex-Guru/05 My Egyptian Grammar/06 Japanese Slippers/07 Widow City/08 Interview/09 Navy Nurse/10 The Philadelphia Grand Jury/11 Clear Signal From Cairo/12 Outro

AUSTIN TEXAS 10/27/07 (EMO'S)-01 Inca Rag/Name Game/02 Birdie Brain/03 Navy Nurse/04 Duplexes of the Dead/05 Automatic Husband/06 Ex-Guru/07 Straight Street/08 My Egyptian Grammar/09 Evergreen/10 Black-hearted Boy/11 Bitter Tea/12 Japanese Slipper/13 Widow City/14 Restorative Beer/15 The Garfield El/Candymaker's Knife In My Handbag/16 Forty Eight Twenty Three Twenty Second Street/17 Seven Silver Curses/18 Slavin' Away/19 The Philadelphia Grand dJury/20 Clear Signal From Cairo/21 Encore Break/22 Blueberry Boat/23 My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found/24 Tropical Iceland

PORTLAND OREGON 10/17/07 (ALADDIN THEATER)-01 Intro/02 The Philadelphia Grand Jury/03 Navy Nurse/04 My Egyptian Grammar/05 Evergreen/06 Duplexes of the Dead/Automatic Husband/Ex-Guru/07 Name Game/Birdie Brain/08 Right By Conquest/09 Black-Hearted Boy/Bitter Tea/10 The Garfield El/11 Candymakers Knife In My Handbag/4823 22nd Street/12 Seven Silver Curses/13 Slavin Away/14 Japanese Slippers/15 Widow City/16 Clear Signal From Cairo/17 Don't Dance Her Down/Single Again/18 My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found/19 Restorative Beer

WOXY LOUNGE ACTS-01 (unsplit tracks)


The links will be up when they are up......zippy has been treamendous as of late, so they may be up tonight yet but I sure wouldn't bet Mom's meth money on it.

The best Destroy All Monsters post,ever

Destroy All Monsters technically never released a proper "album",yet they were quite well known in punk circles in the 1970's.....I actually still have the waaaay cool vinyl 45 "Bored" b/w "You're Gonna Die".....they were something of a combination of Detroit style 1970's Stooges/MC5 punk (both Ron Ashton and Michael Davis were members at times) and Sonic Youth style experimental noise rock, all tied together by the voice of vocalist Niagra, who looked a bit like Death warmed over, charitably, or, more accurately, like Death without the warmth.

They were quite well know for their live shows as well, one of which we have docmuented here......this is NOT really "great" stuff, this is the kind of stuff that perhaps you ahve read about and never actually heard. The aforementioned single is REALLY a good one, other than that it is pretty hit-and-miss.

The EP "Bored" is a collection of the band's singles, which, I am not kidding, includes a cover of Kiss' "Detroit Rock City"......if you are going to dabble, I recommend doing so here, ohaps the live album, which is undated and also not located (I assume Detroit, on't think they ventured out of there that often), which has some sound issues but does include a different version of "Bored" and of course the "classic" "Anyone Can Fuck Her".

Sometime in the decade of the 1990's Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth released a three disc set of Destroy All Monsters stuff, I mean this must be eery note they ever recorded. I have only two discs of it, can't for the life of me locate the third one, but let me tell you, THEY ARE NOT VERY GOOD (at least these two).....they lean WAY more to the experimental/Sonic Youth side of the band than to the rocking/Stooges side of things, this is a curiosity that may or may not be of interest to you.....the two discs that I DO have are entitled "Gospel Crusade" and "Crying In Bed", the title of the missing third disc is not coming blazing to mind right now, if you happen to have it, please share, I am sure it sucks, but I'd still really like to hear it.

This is one band whose "legend" is MUCH greater than their actual body of work......but as always, some good stuff can be found if we search......"Bored" and "You're Gonna Die" still rock the house every time for me, and you GOTTA love a song called "Anyone Can Fuck Her".......RIGHT?

Looked it up....the third disc is entitled "To the Throne of Chaos", love to hear it if any of you guys have it!


BORED-01 Bored/02 You're Gonna Die/03 November 22 1963/04 Meet the Creeper/05 Nobody Knows/06 What Do I Get/07 Mommy and Daddy's Pussies/08 Detroit Rock City

LIVE-01 Anyone Can Fuck Her/02 Bored/03 Party Girl/04 Fast City/05 Go Away/06 Having It All/07 Boots/08 Little Boyfriend/09 November 22 1963/10 Right Stuff/11 Ground Zero

GOSPEL CRUSADE 1974-76-01 To Planet M2-40/02 Siren/03Gonga/04 Hungry For Death/05 Blow Hole/06 Nixonoxin/07 Ride the Fuzz/08 Vampire/09 Drone/10 Jungle Cracker/11 Church/12 Mack the Knife/13 Shiver/14 Bounce/15 Paranoid of Blondes/16 Indian War Beat/17 Bird SOng of Detroit/18 Take Me With You/19 Base/20 Into/21 Energy Is Happening/22 Egypto/23 You Can't Kill Kill/24 Low and Warped/25 Gospel Crusade

CRYING IN BED-01 Imagine/02 Jam Smear/03 T.H. Queen/04 Puke Like a Mother Fucker/05 The Pothead Speaks/06 Squat March/07 Whistle Space/08 It Hurts Me/09 Wahs/10 From the Edgar Cayce FOundation/11 I Love You But Yo're Dead/12 Electro Banshee/13 Metal/14 That's My Ideal/15 Space Beat/16 Go For It/17 Charlie/18 Japanophile/19 Noodlin/20 Useless Life/21 The Depressed Horn/22 Alien Love Call/23 Evil Works/24 Fades Before 5/25 Cosmo Beat/26 What a Beauty!/27 Ann Arbor BLues


Links in a while I hope, maybe not till morning, gotta go plow a little of the white stuff!

The best Lurkers post ever

This is yet another of those "I'm not fuckin around" posts, the Lurkers were kick-ass all the way, and I got enough material from them here to fill a small RV. They appeared on the scene in the late 1970's, some referred to them as something of an "English Ramones" (not sure I'd TOTALLY agree, but an interesting description nonetheless). They've had several lineup shifts which I'm not going to detail, and I'm also not going to go into a bunch of detal, as to their albums because we have so very many here.....zippy-willing (they have been mag-nif-ique of late) we'll get these all up, by Sunday nihgt, but here is the Cliff's Notes: If you like 1970's Brit-punk, check these.....if you like latter-day garage punk, check these.....if you like the Ramones and think a British version of same would be cool check these.....these guys cranked out cool single after cool single, they made some DAMN good music, and deserve a mega-post of this type. The Lurkers were the absolute shit, the fact that they are so unknown in the US says WAY more about the US than about them. Download all these albums, discover that they are fuckng great, comment, comment,comment, and realize that  BigScott62 knows all, and would never  steer his minions wrong.

No shit, these are some kick ass Brit-punk/garage rock albums......you will LOVE them! Check, at the very least, the Singles Anthology as a starting point, but this is some underrrated, underappreciated shit that NEEDs to be heard. As David Bowie once said "Come on you rock n rollers".......an appropriate phrase when it comes to the kick-ass Lurkers!

BBC PUNK SESSIONS-01 Freak Shw/02 Total War/03 Then I Kissed Her/05 Be My Prisoner/06 Aint Got a Clue/07 Pills/08 I Don't Need To Tell Her/09 Jenny/10 Here Come the Bad Times/11 God's Lonely Men/12 In Room 309/13 Countdown/14 Whatever Happened to Mary/15 Take Me Back to Babylon/16 Out in the Dark/17 See the World/18 Move On/19 Cold Old Night/20 Schoolgirls/21 Pick Me Up

FULHAM FALLOUT-01 Ain't Got a Clue/02 I Don't Need To Tell her/03 Total War/04 Hey You/05 Shadow/06 Then i Kicked Her/07 Go Go Go/08 Jenny/09 Time Of Year/10 Self Destruct/11 It's Quiet Here/12 Gerald/13 I'm On Heat/14 Be My Prisoner/15 Shadow (Single Version)/16 Love Story/17 Freak Show/18 Mass Media Beleiver/19 Ooh! Ooh! I Love You/20 Pills/21 We Are the Chaos Brothers/22 Be My Prisoner/23 Total War (demo)/24 Then i Kissed Her (Demo)/25 I Love the Dark/26 Freak Show (Demo)

GOD'S LONELY MEN-01 She Knows/02 God's Lonel Men/03 Out in the Dark/04 Cyanide/05 Whatever Happened to Mary/06 Take Me Back To Babylon/07 Room 309/08 I'll Be WIth You/09 Non Contneder/10 Seven OClock Someday/11 Sleep On Diamonds/12 Bad Times/13 Just Thirteen/14 Countdown/15 Suzie is a Floozie/16 Cyandie (Pub Version) 17 New Guitar In Town/
18 LIttle Ole WIne Drinker Me/19 Cold Old Night (Demo)/20 Pick Me Up (Demo)/21 Mary's Coming Home (Demo)/22 New Guitar In Town (Demo)/23 Little Old Wine Drinker Me (Demo)

MAX'S KANSAS CITY-01 Ain't Got a Clue/02 I'll Ne With You/03 I Don't Need To Tell Her/04 Out In the Dark/05 Shadow/06 Jenny/07 It's Quiet Here

GREATEST HITS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT-01 I'm On Heat/02Cyanide/03 Pills/04 Shadow/05 Little Ol Wine Drinker Me/06 Out in the Dark/07 Feak Show/08 Jenny/09 Self Destruct/10 Ain't Got a Clue/11 Take ME Back To Babyblon/12 Total War/13 Love Story/14 Then I Kicked Her/15 I Don't Need To Tell Her/16 Just Thirteen/17 She Knows/18 New Guitar In Town

POWERJIVE-01 Powerjive/02 Lipstick and Shampoo/03 Solitaire/04 Waiting or You/05 Things Will Never Be the Same/06 The World Of Jenny Brown/07 Walk Like a Superstar/08 Go Go Girls/09 Strage Desire/10 Ravens Wing/11 I Close My Eyes/12 Lullaby

LIVE IN BERLIN-01 Freakshow/02Aint Got a Clue/03 Just Thirteen/04 Sidewinder/05 Walk Like a Superstar (Talk Like a Zombie)/06 In Soho/07 In Your Own World/08 Wolverine/09 Take Me Back to Babylon/10 Go Go Girl/11 Powerjive/12 Going Monkee Again (hey Hey Hey)/13 Self Destruct/14 Lipstick and Shampoo/15 New Guitar In Town/16 Shadow/17 Miss World/18 Don't Ask Me

BEGGARS BANQUET PUNK SINGLES COLLECTION-01 Shadow/02 Love Story/03 Freak Show/04 Mass Media Beleiver/05 Be My Prisoner (Streets LP Version)/06 Ain't Got a Clue/07 Ooh Ooh I Love You/08 Fullham Fallout Fifty/09 I Don't Need To Tell Her/10 Pills/11 Just Thirteen/12 Countdown/13 Out in the Dark/14 Cyanide/15 Suzie is a Floozie/16 Cyanide (pub Version)/17 New Guitar In Town/18 Little Ole Wine Drinker Me

AINT GOT A CLUE-01 Going Monkee Again/02 Lucky John/03 Never Had a Beach/04 Barbara Blue/05 Unfinished Business/06 King of the Mountain (Parts 1 & 2)/07 Ain't Got a Clue (live)/08 I'm On Heat (live)/09 Shadow (Live)/10 Then I Kissed Her (Live)/11 I Don't Need To Tell her (Live)/12 Pills (Live)/13 Cyanide (Live)

ON HEAT (LIVE IN BRAZIL)-01 Freakshow/02 Wolverine/03 One ay/04 Go Go Girl/05 Misery/06 In Richmond/07 Take Me Back To Babylon/08 Miss World/09 Gotta Go/10 Red Light Girl/11 Rubber Room/12 Plls/13 Go Ahead Punk/14 Ain't Got a Clue/15 New  Guitar In Town/16 Im On Heat/17 Shadow/18 Then I Kissed Her/19 Just 13/20 Unfinished Business

THE COMPLETE PUNK SINGLES COLLECTION-01 Saow/02 Love Story03 Freak Show/04 Mass Media Believer/05 Ain't Got a Clue/06 Ooh Ooh I Love You/07 I Don't Need To Tell Her/08 Pills/09 Just THirteen/10 Countdown/11 Out in the Dark/12 Cyanide/13 Suzie is a Floozie/14 Cyanide (Pub Version)/15 New Guitar In Town/16 Little Ole WIne Drinker Me/17 This Dirty Town/18 Wolf at the Door/19 Drag You Out/20 Heroin (It's All Over)/21 Frankenstein Again/22 One Man's Meat/23 Let's Dance Now (No TIme To Be Strangers)/24 Midnight Hour/25 Shut Out The Light/26 By the Heat/27 Go Ahead Punk Make My Day/28 Lucky John

LIVE FREAK SHOW 2004-01 Intro/02 Freak Show/03 Wolverine/04 Take Me Back to Babylon/05 One Day/06 Going Monkee Again/07 In Richmond/08 Rubber Room/09 Red Light Girl/10 Gotta Go/11 Pills/12 Miss World/13 I Don't Need To Tell Her/14 Misery/15 Go Ahead Punk/16 The KKK Took My Baby Away/17 New Guitar In Town/18 Ain't Got a Clue/19 I'm on Heat/20 Shadow/21 Then I Kissed Her/22 Jenny

26 YEARS-01 Ready and Loaded/02 Can't Connect/03 Waste of Space/04 In Richmond/05 Conspiracy/06 Misery/07 26 Years/08 Go Ahead Punk/09 Stop her Coming Back/10 Trance Meeting/11 Go Same/12 Roll Out the Barrel/13 Mass Media Believer/14 Funny Farm/15 Never Use That Gun

FRIED BRAINS-01 Come and Reminisce/02 You're Gone/03 Why You So Happy To Give Your Mind Away/04 Sick Transit/05 Moved Away/06 Why Were You That Way/07 Too late To Change/08 Time To Wake Up/09 Go Forward/10 Little Ole Wine Drinker Me/11 Cheryl Bunkup/12 Revenge of the Dogs/13 Punk Rock Brought us Together/14 Fried Brains

GREATEST HITS LIVE-01 Ain't Got a Clue/02 I Don't Need To Tell Her/03 Unfinished Business/04 Pills/05 Barbara Blue/06 RUbber Room/07 Just Thirteen/08 Uptown Or Downtown/09 Goig Monkee Again/10 Shadow/11 New Guitar In Town/12 Miss World/13 I'm On Heat/14 Freak Show/15 Take Me Back to Babylon/16 Then I Kissed Her/17 Drag You Out/18 Cyanide/19 Jenny

TOTALLY LURKERED- 01 Love Story/02 Freak Show/03 Be My Prisoner/04 Shadow/05 Aint Got a Clue/06 I Don't Need To Tell Her/07 Total War/08 I'm On Heat/09 Just Thirteen/10 Out In the Dark/11 Cyanide/12 God's Lonely Men/13 She Knows/14 In Room 309/15 New Guitar In Town




Well, obviously it took a little while to put that together.....Zippy has been cooperative of late, we shall see what happens with this super mega post......hope you guys like it. Look for linkis tomorrow (Tuesday) Iwould guess

The best L7 post ever

One of my fave (and I think one of the more underappreciated) bands of the early 1990's were L7, whom referred to themselves as "ugly chick rock"......we can leave that in the eye of the beholder, but they did indeed leave us some pretty good rocking grungy/riot grrrl albums, and also committed some strange antics on stage and the like, a few of which we will touch on later.

For the mot part, the lineup was vocalist/guitarists Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardener, bassist Jennifer Finch, and drummer Dee Plakas. Their self-titled debut is a pre-rgunge (1988) effort, maybe a bit more in the line of something like Red Aunts or Bikini Kill, it's for completists/fans, although it does contain a track entitled "Bite the Wax Tadpole" and if you can tell me the significance of that title, you will win a very, very very special prize compliments of the blog. Well, not REALLY, but it is a funny story, try to look it up somewhere.

Album #2, 1990's "Smell the Magic" is quite a bit more mature, you could hear before our ears the band developing right into it's signature sound.....it's a short, kind of skimpy album, but "Shove" and "Packin' a Rod" are among other good ones......FYI these firt two albums will fit on one single 80- minute CD, in case you needed to know that for any reason.

They hit their stride with "Bricks Are Heavy" in 1992, by far their best work, and one of the best albums of the early 90's, period. "Pretend We're Dead" is a tremendous single, "Wargasm" and the underappreciated "Everglade" are nearly as good, and "Shitlist" appears to great effect in the movie "Natural Born Killers".......great album, do not miss it.

They would not match "Bricks are Heavy".....the next album "Hungry For Stink" had a minor single "Andres", which I personally don't like too much, and some other decent stuff like "Stuck Here Again" and "Riding With a Movie Star", but nothing even close, really, to "Everglade" or "Pretend We're Dead".......L7 fans I'm sure feel this is a fine album, and it has it's moments, but it simply is not "Bricks are Heavy".

In 1997 they released "The Beauty Process Triple Platinum", another deecnt album, argueably better than "Hungry For Stink"....."Drama" and "Off the Wagon" are pretty cool tracks and there are others.....oddly, my copy has a bunch of bonus tracks tacked on the end and NONE of the track listings that I find on the net show them, so I have no idea of this versions country of origin......I mean stuff like The Dead Kennedy's "Let's Lynch the Landlord", The Ramones "Suzy is a Headbanger", several other stuff, culminating with a collaboration with Joan Jett on "Cherry Bomb"

They released a live disc entitled "From Omaha to Osaka" (because those are the two locations that it was recorded in duh), Not bad, not great, I'd have liked to have seen them I heard good things. I also have a 1992 bootleg herem Autralia which I like a bit better and basically focuses on the stuff from "Bricks Are Heavy"

The final link in the L7 chain was 1999's "Slap Happy", it could be worse, there are a few decent tracks like "Freeway" and "Mantra Down", but, clearly, it was time to shut down this operation.......nothing to be ashamed of a fine body of work.

As for their onstage antics, check this very cool Wikipedia piece (I certainly HOPE it is true!):

During their preformance at the 1992 Reading Festival, the band experienced "technical difficulties with their audio equipment" and were forced to stall their set. Quickly, the rowdy crowd grew restless and began throwing mud onto the stage. In protest, lead vocalist Donita Sparks remoed her tampon on-stage and threw it into the crowd yelling "Eat my used tampon fuckers!"Sparks has remained unapologetic about the incident. This has been referred to as one of the "most unsanitary pieces of rock memorabilia in history....You have no idea how much I hope that is true. Also I seem to recall an incident when they "raffled off" a night of passion with one of the band members, I THINK it was Plakas, but I am uncertain on that......there was some time of explanation about rock n roll and prostitution being the same thing anyway or something......anyone else recall that?

Good post here, I like L7.......good music, interesting band. Check em out and let me know what ya think of them.

SELF TITLED-01 Bite the Wax Tadpole/02 Cat O Nine Tails/03 Metal Stampede/04 Lets Rock Tonight/05 Uncle Bob/06 Snake Handler/07 Runnin From the Law/08 Cool Out/09 It's Not You/10 I Drink/11Ms. 45

SMELL THE MAGIC-01 Shove/02 Fast and Frightening/03 (Right On) Thru/04 Deathwish/05 'till the Wheels Fall Off/06 Broomstick/07 Packin a Rod/08 Just Like Me/09 American Society

BRICKS ARE HEAVY-01 Wargasm/0 Scrap/03 Pretend We're Dead/04 Diet Pill/05 Everglade/06 Slide/07 One More Thing/08 Mr. Integrity/09 Monster/10 Shitlist/11 This Ain't Pleasure

HUNGRY FOR STINK-01 Andres/02 Baggage/03 Can I RUn/04 The Bomb/05 Questioning My Sanity/06 Riding With a Movie Star/07 Stuck Here Again/08 Fuel My Fire/09 Freak Magnet/10 She Has Eyes/11 Shirley/12 Talk Box

THE BEAUTY PROCESSS TRIPLE PLATINUM-01 The Beauty Process/02 Drama/03 Off the Wagon/04 I Need/05 Moonhine/06 Bitter Wine/07 The Masses are Asses/08 Bad THings/09 Must Have More/10 Non Existent Patricia/11 Me Myself and I/12 Lorenza  Giada an Alessandra BONUS TRACKS 13 Gas Chamber/14 Hanging on the Telephone/15 Lets Lynch the Landlord/16 Suzy is a Headbanger/17 This Aint the SUmmer of Love/18 I Used to Love Him/19 Yummy Yummy/20 Cherry Bomb (With Joan Jett)

LIVE OMAHA TO OSAKA-01 L7 OVERTURE/Medley:Fast and Frightening/Andres/Drama/Pretend We're Dead/Shove/Shitlist/the Beauty Process/02 Bad Things/03 Must Have More/04 Death Wish/05 Slide/06 Bitter Wine/07 Drama/08 Non-Existent Patricia/09 Pattylean/10 El Wahtusi/12 Andres/13 Fast And Frightening/14 Off the Wagon/15 Little One/16 Lorenza, Giada, Allesandra

TRIPLE J STUDIOS OCTOBER 1992 BRISBANE AUSTRLIA-01 DJ Intro/02 Deathwish/03 Diet Pill/04 Everglade/05 (Right on) Thru/06 Wargasm/07 Pretend We're Dead/08 Shove/09 Fast and Frightening/10 Shitlist/11 DJ CLosing Credits

SLAP HAPPY-01 Crackpot Baby/02 On My Rockin Machine/03 Lackey/04 Human/05 Livin Large/06 Freeway/07 Stick to the Plan/08 War With You/09 Long Green/10 Little One/11 Freezer Burn/12 Mantra Down

Zippy has been as up and down as it can be of late.....firt time in a while I've tried a big post, hope that they work with me on this one as they ahve the past couple of small ones. Until tomorrow.....